Hugo Ashmore
Senior Software Engineer at Informa TechTarget
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorHugo Ashmore is a standards-focused Senior Software Engineer with 15 years’ experience building robust frontends and full-stack WordPress integrations, currently at Informa TechTarget. He brings deep expertise in CSS, HTML variants and JavaScript, early-adopter experience with CSS and a pragmatic backend skillset in PHP, enabling end-to-end delivery from markup to server. Hugo is an experienced React developer using Next.js and Nest.js for modern component-driven applications, while his workflow centers on Node, Sass/SCSS tooling, Grunt and Git. A long-time contributor and committer to the BuddyPress project, he has led releases and theme integrations that improved responsiveness and styling across WordPress core themes. Known for meticulous, well-structured code and a focus on standards, he often surfaces subtle accessibility and styling edge-cases that improve long-term maintainability.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (9)
css10
buddypress10
wordpress10
intergration10
scs10
theme-ui10
sc10
front-end-development9
responsive-design9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
buddypress/buddypress
Apr 2015 - May 2018
BuddyPress DEVELOPMENT repo. This repository is just a mirror of the development SVN at https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/. Please include a link to a pre-existing ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ with every pull request.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:153 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Hugo primarily contributed to the styling and theming of the BuddyPress plugin, specifically targeting the integration with WordPress's Twentyfifteen, Twentyfourteen, and Twentytwelve themes. Their work involved creating and modifying CSS and SCSS files to ensure proper display and responsiveness of BuddyPress elements within these themes. They added rulesets for general formatting, activity streams, and user profile interfaces while also refactoring code for better structure and organization.
wordpresssvntracpull-requestlink
buddypress/next-template-packs
Apr 2016 - Nov 2017
is this the next BuddyPress template pack?
Contributions:670 commits, 12 PRs, 391 pushes in 1 year 7 months
wordpresstemplatebuddypresspack
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